Utah · Nonprofit
Walden School of Liberal Arts
Walden School of Liberal Arts (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,715 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($426,226). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $508k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Walden School of Liberal Arts does
Mission
To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of one public charter school for students from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
$5,108,370 spent$6,353,503 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,108,370.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $9.4M to $10M (+9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% · 2024 93% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Walden School of Liberal Arts’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Matt Turner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $44k → $94k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Walden School of Liberal Arts’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Walden School of Liberal Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
92% of Walden School of Liberal Arts's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Walden School of Liberal Arts holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Walden School of Liberal Arts
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Walden School of Liberal Arts: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Walden School of Liberal Arts?
- Walden School of Liberal Arts (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,715 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($426,226). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Walden School of Liberal Arts have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $507,715 in grants to Walden School of Liberal Arts, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Walden School of Liberal Arts?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $426,226 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Walden School of Liberal Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing